By JESSICA GUERRERO MORELIA, Michoacán — The cartel violence in Mexico has continued to increase since the beginning of the drug war in 2006, and despite government efforts to put an end to it, continues to add victims to its list of causalities on a daily basis. The number of homicides in Mexico went from 9,921 deaths in 2005 to 35,679
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By KELIN DILLON The newly sworn-in governors of Mexican states Chihuahua, Zacatecas, Sonora, Campeche, Nayarit and San Luis Potosí have raised concerns about the precarious financial situations of the states they inherited, noting the lack of funds present to pay payroll, pensions and providers. The National Action Party’s (PAN) Governor of Chihuahua María Eugenia Campos made note of a 11
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF U.S. Border Patrols officers temporarily detained 14 Mexican soldiers on Saturday, Sept. 25, for crossing into the United States over a border bridge in El Paso, Texas, without proper documentation. The U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a statement that two Mexican military vehicles crossed the bridge that connects El Paso with
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By ALEJANDRO ENVILA FISHER The future of Mexico’s centralist National Institutional Party (PRI) will be contingent to a single concept: loyalty. The PRI lost all the governorships in its power in June for two reasons: the depth of its discredit (derived more from its arrogance than from the failure of the governments it led), and the lack of loyalty of
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF After a five-month downward trend in massacres in Mexico, June closed with 10 mass executions nationwide, making it the worst month of the year for attacks of this kind, according to government statistics. Massacres, defined by the government as shootings in which five or more people die during a single violent event, surged in
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By KELIN DILLON With Mexico’s rainy season undoubtedly having arrived, massive rain storms are expected to continue throughout the country, even causing Mexico City to issue an alert to its inhabitants about the storms. Mexico’s National Water Commission (Conagua) released a statement revealing low pressure in both the Pacific and Gulf of Mexico that has a 20 percent chance of
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By KELIN DILLON Mexico’s Tren Maya, spearheaded by President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO), will reportedly begin operation in December of 2023, said National Fund for the Promotion of Tourism (Fonatur) Director Rogelio Jiménez Pons. At his press conference on the morning of Wednesday, June 9, AMLO signed a contract with the Bombardier-Alstom consortium for the construction of 42 carriages
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By THÉRÈSE MARGOLIS While Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) lost his partisan stranglehold of Congress in the Sunday, June 6, midterm elections, thus limiting his ability to ram through initiatives and rewrite the constitution on a whim, his leftist National Regeneration Movement (Morena) party apparently gained territory on the gubernatorial front, winning 11 of 15 slots, according to
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By THE PULSE NEWS MEXICO STAFF Andrea Meza, a software engineer from the northern Mexican state of Chihuahua, was crowned Miss Universe 2021 on the night of Sunday, May 16, beating out first runner-up Miss Brazil for the title. The 26-year-old Meza is the third Mexican to win the competition since it was founded 68 years ago. In 1991, the
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By KELIN DILLON After more than a year-long battle against the covid-19 pandemic, during which many Mexican states were designated by the country’s traffic light color-based risk system as being in the dangerous orange and red zones, finally 29 states have been designated within the yellow and green rankings, meaning a lower risk of coronavirus infection, as of Monday, May
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